"lyrical references to ""Don't Look Now""—among Roeg's other films—along with clips from it in the video, directed by Luc Roeg, while Sophie Ellis-Bextor performed a ""pop synth homage"" to ""Don't Look Now"" with her song, ""Catch You"", and portions of the film were sampled in the M83 song ""America"". Don't Look Now Don't Look Now () is a 1973 independent film directed by Nicolas Roeg. It is a thriller adapted from the short story by Daphne du Maurier. Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland portray a married couple who travel to Venice following the recent accidental death of their daughter, after"
"Donaggio became a regular composer for Brian De Palma films and credits Nicolas Roeg with giving him his first lesson in writing film scores, and expressed a desire to work with him again. ""Don't Look Now"" has become famous for a sex scene involving Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland, which caused considerable controversy prior to its release in 1973. British tabloid newspaper, the ""Daily Mail"", observed at the time ""one of the frankest love scenes ever to be filmed is likely to plunge lovely Julie Christie into the biggest censorship row since ""Last Tango in Paris"""". The scene was unusually"
"outside army bases in the Pacific Rim and interviews with American troops who were then on active service. A follow up to their teaming up in ""Klute"", Sutherland and Fonda performed together in ""Steelyard Blues"" (1973), a ""freewheeling, Age-of-Aquarius, romp-and-roll caper"" from the writer David S. Ward. Sutherland found himself as a leading man throughout the 1970s in films such as the Venice-based psychological horror film ""Don't Look Now"" (1973), co-starring Julie Christie, a role which saw him nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor, the war film ""The Eagle Has Landed"" (1976), ""Federico Fellini's Casanova"" (1976) and the"
"and could clearly see Sutherland's penis ""moving in and out of"" Christie. Bart also reiterated Warren Beatty's discontent, noting that Beatty had contacted him to complain about what he perceived to be Roeg's exploitation of Christie, and insisting that he be allowed to help edit the film. Sutherland subsequently issued a statement through his publicist stating that the claims were not true, and that Bart did not witness the scene being filmed. Peter Katz, the film's producer, corroborated Sutherland's account that the sex was entirely simulated. ""Don't Look Now""—marketed as a ""psychic thriller""—was released in London's West End on 16"
"collaborations between Christie and Warren Beatty, who described her as ""the most beautiful and at the same time the most nervous person I had ever known"". The couple had a high-profile but intermittent relationship between 1967 and 1974. After the relationship ended, they worked together again in the comedies ""Shampoo"" (1975) and ""Heaven Can Wait"" (1978). Her other films during the decade were Nicolas Roeg's thriller ""Don't Look Now "" (1973), in which she co-starred with Donald Sutherland, and the science-fiction/horror film ""Demon Seed"" (1977), based on the novel of the same name by Dean Koontz and directed by Donald"
"Flint was an avid fan of Rudolph Valentino and acquired the only known copy of footage from ""The Young Rajah"". Flint was wealthy and lived in a mansion house at Westbourne Terrace near London Paddington station. The mansion had been formerly occupied by the actor George Arliss. During pre-production for the 1973 film ""Don't Look Now"", director Nicolas Roeg and actress Julie Christie were invited by Flint to a séance he was holding for some American parapsychologists who were coming to observe him. Roeg and Christie attended and sat in a circle in the pitch dark and joined hands. Flint"
"Cammell. ""Don't Look Now"" in particular has received acclaim, with Christie nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and in 2017 a poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers and critics for ""Time Out"" magazine ranked it the greatest British film ever. Christie returned to the United Kingdom in 1977, living on a farm in Wales. In 1979, she was a member of the jury at the 29th Berlin International Film Festival. Never a prolific actress, even at the height of her career, Christie turned down many high-caliber film roles, including ""Anne of the Thousand"
"film, and the film includes numerous thematic similarities, including one character stating that the film she is working on is a ""pastiche of ""Don't Look Now"""". ""Flatliners"", a 1990 supernatural thriller directed by Joel Schumacher, also draws explicitly on the red-coated childlike figure by having a character terrorised by a child wearing a red coat; coincidentally, the character who is being tormented is played by Kiefer Sutherland, Donald Sutherland's son. In the 2007 stage play of ""Don't Look Now"", written by Nell Leyshon and directed by Lucy Bailey, the play made a conscious effort to bypass the film and be"
"the script. He felt it was handled too negatively and believed that ""Don't Look Now"" should be a more ""educative film"", and that the ""characters should in some way benefit from ESP and not be destroyed by it"". Roeg was resistant to any changes and issued Sutherland an ultimatum. Roeg wanted Julie Christie to attend a séance prior to filming. Leslie Flint, a direct voice medium based in Notting Hill, invited them to attend a session which he was holding for some American parapsychologists, who were coming over to observe him. Roeg and Christie went along and sat in a"
"stars Patrick Duffy, Pam Dawber and Dominic Raake. The film first aired on Fox Family on July 25, 1999. The book is based on Lois Duncan's daughter Kaitlyn Arquette's personality. Arquette was shot to death shortly after the book was published while riding home from her friend's house. Duncan believes that ""Don't Look Behind You"" was a premonition of her daughter's death. Like the main character of the novel, Kaitlyn was chased by a hired gunman that resembled the killer that was on the cover of a paperback version. Duncan investigated her daughter's death herself (after being unsatisfied with the"
"films from those that had begun to deteriorate to undergo restoration. On completion of the restoration in 2001, the film was given another theatrical release. ""Don't Look Now"" has been released on VHS, DVD and Blu-ray. Extras include an introduction by film journalist Alan Jones, an audio commentary by director Nicolas Roeg, a retrospective documentary featurette (""Looking Back""), an extract from a 1980s documentary about Roeg (""Nothing is as it Seems""), and interviews with Donald Sutherland, composer Pino Donaggio (""Death in Venice""), scriptwriter Allan Scott, cinematographer Anthony Richmond and film director Danny Boyle, as well as a ""compressed"" version of"
"on his work and counts it amongst his favourite films. Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, and Jeremy Dyson drew upon ""Don't Look Now"" considerably for their television series ""The League of Gentlemen""; Pemberton ranks it among the top three British horror films of the 1960s and 1970s, and says that he wants things he has written to make audiences feel the way he felt when he watched ""The Wicker Man"" and ""Don't Look Now"". Similarly, Ryan Murphy considers his TV series ""American Horror Story"" to be a throwback to '60s and '70s psychological horror, citing ""Don't Look Now"", ""Rosemary's"
"nominations in the Best Film, Direction, Actor, Actress, Sound Track and Film Editing categories. It was also nominated in the Best Motion Picture category at the 1974 Edgar Allan Poe Awards. The reputation of ""Don't Look Now"" has grown since its release and it is now regarded as a key work in horror cinema. It has led to some critics re-evaluating their original opinions of it: Roger Ebert, nearly thirty years after his original review, stated that he had come to an ""accommodation"" with his reservations about what he termed the ""admitted weakness of the denouement"". Having gone through the"
"get away with it.'"" Soderbergh cites Nicolas Roeg's 1973 film ""Don't Look Now"" as the primary influence on how he approached the love scene between Foley and Sisco: ""What I wanted to create in our movie was the intimacy of that, the juxtaposition of these two contrasting things ... We had to mix it up and have you feel like you were more in their heads."" The character Ray Nicolette also appears in Leonard's novel ""Rum Punch"", which was being filmed as ""Jackie Brown"" when Universal Pictures was preparing to begin production on ""Out of Sight"". After Michael Keaton was"
"alia, Hicks designed sets for Richard Lester's 1968 movie ""Petulia"", starring Julie Christie. Garnett's Chelsea Drugstore was immortalised in Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film ""A Clockwork Orange"". Evans and his second wife, Gail, now write e-books showing how to ""cure without pills"" a number of pesky maladies that doctors find difficult, e.g. insomnia; this cure won an award as did their book on breaking cigarette addiction; other books supply remedies for obesity, depression, hay fever and snoring. Their most ambitious book addresses adding a significant number of extra years to life, and how to save more valuable years by sleeping less"
"book after his success with the 1995 film adaptation of Leonard's novel ""Get Shorty"". Steven Soderbergh had made two films for Universal Pictures when executive Casey Silver offered him ""Out of Sight"" with George Clooney attached. However, the filmmaker was close to making another project and hesitated to commit. Silver told him, ""These things aren't going to line up very often, you should pay attention"". Sandra Bullock was originally considered to play Karen Sisco opposite Clooney. According to Soderbergh, ""What happened was I spent some time with [Clooney and Bullock] and they actually did have a great chemistry. But it"
"book was adapted as a screenplay by Marguerite Roberts for the Western film ""True Grit"" directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Kim Darby as Mattie Ross, Robert Duvall as ""Lucky"" Ned Pepper, Glen Campbell as LaBoeuf, Jeff Corey as Tom Chaney, and John Wayne as Rooster Cogburn (a role that won John Wayne Best Actor at the Academy Awards). A film sequel, ""Rooster Cogburn"", was produced from an original screenplay in 1975, with John Wayne reprising his role, and Katharine Hepburn as an elderly spinster, Eula Goodnight, who teams with him. The sequel was not well received, and the plot"
"cast for this adaptation included: Julia McKenzie as Miss Marple Sean Biggerstaff as Bobby Attfield David Buchanan as John Carstairs Siwan Morris as Florrie Helen Lederer as Marjorie Attfield Georgia Moffett as Frankie Derwent Samantha Bond as Sylvia Savage Richard Briers as Wilson Freddie Fox as Tom Savage Rik Mayall as Alec Nicholson Hannah Murray as Dorothy Savage Rafe Spall as Roger Bassington Natalie Dormer as Moira Nicholson Warren Clarke as Commander Peters Mark Williams as Claud Evans Why Didn't They Ask Evans? Why Didn't They Ask Evans? is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in"
"piece in ""The Observer"" stated that Mickery was ""braced for complaints this Christmas from fans of previous screen portrayals"", after basing her plot on the original book rather than the films. Differences from the book include the introduction of romance for Hannay, through suffragette and spy Victoria Sinclair, played by Lydia Leonard, and, according to Serena Davies of ""The Daily Telegraph"", ""a plot with so many twists and turns you almost need a degree in espionage to follow it"". Penry-Jones read the book and saw the other versions of the film, but said that Hitchcock's 1959 film ""North by Northwest"""
"Birthistle as Rosaleen, Celia Imrie as Kathy Cloade, Jenny Agutter as Adela Marchmont and Tim Pigott-Smith as Dr. Lionel Woodward. The film made several significant changes to the plot: John Moffatt played Poirot in the 2004 BBC Radio 4 adaptation of the novel. Taken at the Flood Taken at the Flood is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in March 1948 under the title of There is a Tide . . . and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in the November of the"
"Apocalypse Now Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film directed, produced, and co-written by Francis Ford Coppola. It stars Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne, and Dennis Hopper. The screenplay, co-written by Coppola and John Milius (who received an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay) and featuring narration written by Michael Herr, is an updating of Joseph Conrad's novella ""Heart of Darkness"". The setting was changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War ""ca."" 1969–70, the years in which Green Beret Colonel Robert Rheault, commander of the 5th Special"
"Apocalypse Now Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film directed, produced, and co-written by Francis Ford Coppola. It stars Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne, and Dennis Hopper. The screenplay, co-written by Coppola and John Milius (who received an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay) and featuring narration written by Michael Herr, is an updating of Joseph Conrad's novella ""Heart of Darkness"". The setting was changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War ""ca."" 1969–70, the years in which Green Beret Colonel Robert Rheault, commander of the 5th Special"
"be Nicolas Roeg's third directorial feature following ""Performance"" and ""Walkabout"". Although real-life couple Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner were suggested for the parts of Laura and John Baxter, Roeg was eager to cast Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland from the very start. Initially engaged by other projects, both actors unexpectedly became available. Christie liked the script and was keen to work with Roeg, who had served as cinematographer on ""Fahrenheit 451"", ""Far from the Madding Crowd"" and ""Petulia"" in which she had starred. Sutherland also wanted to make the film but had some reservations about the depiction of clairvoyance in"
"into a feature film to be directed by David Fincher, but soon scrapped the idea of making a film about the shooting. Kennedy said about the decision, ""We worried it would just be too difficult for people to look at."" The producers instead chose to adapt the book into a one-act play entitled ""The Library."" The play was written by screenwriter Scott Z. Burns and directed by Steven Soderbergh. The original ensemble cast included Chloë Grace Moretz, Lili Taylor and Michael O'Keefe. Columbine (book) Columbine is a non-fiction book written by Dave Cullen and published by Twelve (Hachette Book Group)"
"York Times"" best seller list, 14 weeks at number one, it is the 5th longest-running nonfiction best seller of all time. A feature film based on the book was adapted by Universal Pictures and Legendary Pictures. Angelina Jolie directed this film while the Coen brothers, Richard LaGravenese, and William Nicholson wrote the screenplay. Jack O'Connell portrays Louis Zamperini and the film had its general release on Christmas, 2014. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption is a 2010 non-fiction book by Laura Hillenbrand, author of"
"between men and women at the clinic. James finally recovers and never relapses. Initial rights for a film adaptation were held by Warner Bros., who had shelved the project after it emerged the book was not a memoir as promoted, and the author James Frey fabricated elements of the story. In October 2017, Sam Taylor-Johnson was announced to be directing the film, with her husband Aaron Taylor-Johnson attached to star. In January 2018, Billy Bob Thornton, Carla Juri, Charlie Hunnam and Giovanni Ribisi were added to the cast, with production beginning on January 25. David Dastmalchian and Juliette Lewis were"
"Now"" (1973). Of the films, du Maurier often complained that the only ones she liked were Hitchcock's ""Rebecca"" and Nicolas Roeg's ""Don't Look Now"". Hitchcock's treatment of ""Jamaica Inn"" was disavowed by both director and author, due to a complete re-write of the ending to accommodate the ego of its star, Charles Laughton. Du Maurier also felt that Olivia de Havilland was wrongly cast as the anti-heroine of ""My Cousin Rachel"". ""Frenchman's Creek"" fared better in a lavish Technicolor version released in 1944. Du Maurier later regretted her choice of Alec Guinness as the lead in the film of ""The"
"to alter people's lives. She thinks the people she loves are better than they really are, and so then she starts changing things around to suit her point of view of them."" In 1994, a television movie based on the book was made for the Hallmark Hall of Fame. It was directed by John Erman, and starred James Garner and Joanne Woodward as Ira and Maggie Moran. It was filmed in the Pittsburgh PA area. Joanne Woodward won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance. Kevin McKeon also adapted the novel into a stage"
"Bloch. To cap off his list, Povill put as his last recommendation ""Jon Povill—almost credit: Star Trek II story (with Roddenberry). Will be a big shot some day. Should be hired now while he is cheap and humble."" The end result was a list of 34 names, none of whom were chosen to pen the script. Finally, British screenwriters Chris Bryant and Allan Scott, who had penned the Donald Sutherland thriller ""Don't Look Now"" were hired to write a script. Bryant believed he earned the screenwriting assignment because his view of Kirk resembled what Roddenberry modeled him on; ""one of"
"Britain, the British Board of Film Classification judged the uncut version to be ""tasteful and integral to the plot"", and a scene in which Donald Sutherland's character can be clearly seen performing oral sex on Christie's character was permitted, but it was still given an X rating—an adults only certificate. The sex scene remained controversial for some years after the film's release. The BBC cut it altogether when ""Don't Look Now"" premiered on UK television, causing a flood of complaints from viewers. The intimacy of the scene led to rumours that Christie and Sutherland had unsimulated sex which have persisted"
"by a post-colonial State. Critic Tim Guathier asserts that the crisis of identity which Francie experiences throughout the novel stems from the ""unbalanced state"" of Ireland and Irish identity. In particular, Guathier emphasizes that the instability of the community during the sixties—a time of rapid change and political violence within Ireland—shapes his dysfunctional family, and Francie's dysfunctional relationships with other characters such as Joe Purcell, and ensures that Francie does not feel part of the larger community, effectively turning him into the ""Other"". The book was adapted into a feature film directed by Neil Jordan in 1997. It starred Eamonn"
"and later in the film John attempts to make a seamless match between recently manufactured tiles and the old ones in repairing an ancient mosaic. Roeg describes the basic premise of the story as principally being that in life ""nothing is what it seems"", and even decided to have Donald Sutherland's character utter the line—a scene which required fifteen takes. Communication is a theme that runs through much of Nicolas Roeg's work, and figures heavily in ""Don't Look Now"". This is best exemplified by the blind psychic woman, Heather, who communicates with the dead, but it is presented in other"
"wrote a biography of Zamperini entitled """" (2010) and published by Random House, was a #1 ""New York Times"" bestseller. It was named the top nonfiction book of 2010 by ""Time Magazine"". The book """" was adapted into the film ""Unbroken"" by the Coen brothers. It was directed by Angelina Jolie, and starred Jack O'Connell as Zamperini. The first film covered the time up to Zamperini's return from the war; a sequel, """", covers Zamperini's recovery from his abuse as a POW. It was directed by Harold Cronk, released in September 2018, with Samuel Hunt portraying Zamperini. In 2015 the"